​• Maybe Ken Wiebe is right. Maybe the Jets are ready to take a step forward in the fourth year of their five-year plan. Maybe there will be unprecedented competition for jobs in camp and maybe Ondrej Pavelec will have a breakthrough year and maybe general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff will prove everyone who ripped him for a summer of relative inactivity wrong. But I think it's more likely that Winnipeg is tanking it for Connor McDavid. Which, to be fair, might be the best course of action this season.

​• George Malik rounds up the the latest rumors on Kevin Hayes and makes an astute observation as to why the Boston College grad may be taking longer than we all expected to make his choice from among his many NHL suitors.

​• Not a lot of hockey in an August edition of Steve Simmons' Sunday notes column, but among the tidbits are the details of Brendan Shanahan's contract with the Maple Leafs. If accurate, this would appear to rule out Toronto as an option if Detroit coach Mike Babcock is looking for big money on the open market on his next deal.